Bottle-guide for bottle-filling machines.



, A. P. ZELLER. l BOfITLI-I GUIDE FOR BOTTLE FILLING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED 13:20./9, 1908.

Patented sept. 7, A1909.

akku@- ANDREW r. ZELDER, onBALTnvroRn MARYLAND.

BOTTLE-GUIDE Fon BOTTLE-FILLING MACHINES.

' Specification of lLetters Patent.

.Patented Sept. 7, 1909.

Application led December 9, 1908. Serial No. 466,588.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, ANDREW F. ZELLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Guides for Bottle-Filling Ma-' chines, of which the following is a specification.

for use in machines for filling liquids into bottles and for applying caps.

. In bottling machines which first fill the bottle with liquid and then apply to the bot.- tle a cap or closure, it is usual to employ a head having a filling tube which enters thel mouth of the bottle, and also a cap-applying device which seals the bottle after` it has been iilled. A table or seat on which the empty bottle is placed in position so as to receive the lling tube is also employed, and in addition to these parts means are employed to impart tf1/vertical reciprocating motion either to the head or to the seat in order to bring the filling-tube and bottlemouth into filling relation.

The object of my invention is to provide for this type of bottling machine, a guide to be attached to the filling head, and which shall control the heads and mouths of the bottles at the time of the movement that brings the iilling-tube respectively into filling relation.

The invention is illust-rated in the accompanying drawing in which,-

Figure 1 is a side view of my bottle-guide attached to the filling head of a machine. Fig. 2 is a front view of the bottle-guide and filling-head of a machine. Fig. 3 is a top view of the guide and a horizontal section view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1 of the headpart of the machine. Fig. 4: shows a vertical section of the guide.

filling-head of the machine which is pro-A vided with a groove, 2; 3, designates the pendent filling-tube that is to enter the mouth of the bottle, and, 4, a hand-lever that controls the flow of the liquid whatever This invention relates to a bottle' guidev Fig. 5 is a pei-, spective view of one of the jointed arms thatv it may be. The parts just named belong to the machine.

The guide device, which is the subject of the present invention, is intended to control or direct the mouthI of the empty bottle so that the pendent lling tube, 3, will enter the mouth and be properly centered therein. The bottle-guide is attached to the head of the machine by a right-angled bracket; the

vertical arm, 5, of this bracket tits in the groove, 2, on the iilling-head and is adjustable thereon up or down and is held in fixed position by a bolt and nut, 6. The horizontal head, 7, of the bracket has an opening, 8, in the vertical direction that Vis circular. At opposite sides of the horizontal head are two ears, 16, which serve a purpose to'be presently described. r1`he guide-jaws are each .semi-circular, and each consists of a haltring, 9, and an inverted half-funnel, 10, at the under side of the half-ring. When the two guide-jaws are together as seen in Figs. 2 and 6, they form a circular ring which has at its lower side a {iaring or funnel-shaped mouth.l Each guide-jaw is attached to a pendent arm, 11, whose upper end has a pivot-hole, 12, and whose lower end projects below the guide-j aw and has one side slanted or beveled to its extremity as at, 13. Intermediate of the upper and lower ends the pendent arm on its outer edge has a notch, 14. The two pendent arms are made rights and lefts, respectively, each arm having near the pivot hole and at its outer edge a lateral lug, 15, and the lugs of the two arms project in the same direction. The upperend of each pendent arm, 11, fits between the two ears, 16, already mentioned on the horizontal part, 7, of the bracket, and a pivot-bolt, 17, on the ears fits in the pivot hole, 12, in the end of the pendent arm. The horizontal part of the bracket has two pair of ears, 16,-one pair at each of two opposite sides. This construction allows the two arms, which hang down at opposite sides of the head, to swing toward yand away from each other.

The horizontal head, 7 of the supporting bracket has four sides (see Fig. 3) to one side the vertical arm, 5, is attached and at the opposite side is a bearing, 18, which projects downward a little and has a horizontal bore extending through it; two set-screws, 19, are in this bearing and the ends of the screws enter said bore and are in position to impinge against the stop devices, 20,

i therein. Each stop device comprises a rightangled arm; one prong, 20, ofthis arm enters the said bore in the bearing, 18, and is adjustable therein,^and is held by one of the set-screws, 19. The other end, 21, of the right-angled arm projects andi inclines downward to a position where it will be contacted by the lateral lug, 15, hereinbefore mentioned, on the pendent arm. This contact will stop the pivoted arm, 11, from swinging inward. Thesestop parts serve to insure that the pivoted'arms, 11, with the guide jaws attached, will not swing inward toward the pendent filling tube, 3, which has position between the two arms.

With each pendent ai'in, 11, is a cross-bar, 22, that fits in the notch, 14, on the outer edge of the arm; theends of the said two cross-bars, 22, are Aconnected by spiral springs, 23, -as shown, and the function of these'springs is to draw the two arms, 11, andtheir guide-jaws toward eachv other, but to permit either one, ,orV both arms, to be moved in a direction away from t-he filling tube, 3.

In operation, -a bottle is to be'placed on j the seat (not shown) of a liquid filling machine and with the mouth of the bottle approximately directly under the guide-device. When the lvertically moving head, 1, of the machine which carries the filling tube, 3, and the guide-device, moves downward, the

' flared or beveled ends, 13, of the two pivoted arms will receive the mouth of the bottle between them, and a further movement down will cause the half-tunnels, 10, to act on the -accurate position.

bottle-mouth and if the latter is not in accurate position for the filling tube, 3, to enter the-mouth, said guide parts will move the mouth and govern it until it takes the Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,- j

1. A bottle-guide for bottle-filling machines comprising a horizontal head having a side bearing, 18, provided with set-screws,

19; two vertical arms whose upper ends are pivoted to said head and whose lower eX- tieinities have a beveled side, 13; two stopdevices, 20, each projecting from an'opposite Y side of said bearing and adjustableV therein and in contactA with said pivoted arms; and

means to cause said arms to press toward each other.

2. A bottle-guide JforA bottle-filling machines having a pendentV filling tube, comprising a horizontal head; twoarms pivoted to the head and hanging pendentftl'ierefiom one at each side of the filling tube and each arm provided with a lateral lug; and two Y i stop devices attached to the horizontal head and projecting down to a position where each will be'contacted by one of Vthe said j lateral lugs. j

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ANDREW F. ZELLER@ fitnesses j Gr. liiiiniimiml Voc'i, Ci-iAs. B. MANN. 

